Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them .  444. 

Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . .         £1,570 18 11

Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c. . . .      182 

Amount of Rewards to the Crews of Shore-boats . . . .   120 10 0

Honorary Rewards:—Silver Medals . . . . . .                     9

Votes of Thanks on Vellum and Parchment                     27

Total                                                                            36                              626   £1,691 8 11

* The Life-boats of the Institution, during the past twelve months, have also assembled or put off, in reply to signals of distress, eighty times; but their services were subsequent;y not required, the ships having succeeded either in getting off from their dangerous positions or had their crews saved by their own boats or other means. It often happened on these occasions that the life-boat crews bad Incurred much risk and great exposure throughout stormy days and nights.

It may be added that, during the past twelve months, the Institution has also expended £21,374d. on its various life-boat establishments on the coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

The number of lives saved, either by the life-boats of the society, or by special exertions for which it has granted rewards, since its formation, is 14,992. For these services 82 gold medals, 751 silver medals, and 21,111/, in cash, have been paid in rewards. The Institution has also expended 128,859l. on its life-boat establishments.

The Committee of the Institution acknowledge their grateful sense of the liberal support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, which has enabled them to establish their present great fleet of 153 life-boats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and the crews practised in the management of their boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to continue to aid them in upholding and perpetuating the truly great work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.